x, 321, [1] pages ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references (page 322)

Setting the stage (1:1-3) -- Ezekiel's vision (1:4-28) -- Ezekiel's vocation (2:1-7) -- Eating the scroll (2:8-3:3) -- Ministry to stubborn people (3:4-15) -- Commissioned as a watchman (3:16-21) -- Commissioned to confinement (3:22-27) -- The symbol of Jerusalem under attack (4:1-3) -- Actions symbolising judgment (4:4-8) -- The symbolism of Ezekiel's diet (4:9-17)

The shearing of the prophet's hair (5:1-4) -- The shearing of Jerusalem (5:5-12) -- A reproach among the nations (5:13-17) -- A message to the mountains (6:1-7) -- The therapy of memory (6:8-10) -- The dance of death (6:11-14) -- The tempest of destruction (7:1-27) -- The vision of Jerusalem (8:1-6) -- The art of idolatry (8:7-13) -- Sacral weeping and sun worship (8:14-18) -- Slaughter in the city (9:1-11) -- The scattering of burning coals (10:1-8) -- The vision of the plain renewed (10:9-22) -- Death at the temple gate (11:1-13) -- A mission for those in exile (11:14-25)

Exiled from those in exile (11:14-25) -- Dining in the twilight of doom (12:17-20) -- The reversal of ancient proverbs (12:21-28) -- Little foxes, whitewashed walls, and false prophets (13:1-16) -- The daughters of deception (13:17-23) -- The idols of the elders (14:1-11) -- Noah, Daniel and Job (14:12-23) -- The wood of the vine: A parable (15:1-8) -- A love story (16:1-14) -- Love gone astray (16:15-34) -- The judgment of the adulteress (16:35-43a) -- A sinner worse than sister Sodom (16:43b-52) -- The covenant relationship restored (16:53-63) -- A political parable and puzzle (17:1-10) -- The puzzle explained (17:11-21) -- God, the planter (17:22-24) -- The essence of individual responsibility (18:1-20) -- Responsibility and repentance (18:21-32)

A lament for young lions (19:1-9) -- A parable of the vine and its branch (19:10-14) -- Rewriting history (20:1-8a) -- A history of failure and forgiveness (20:8b-21a) -- A history of horror (20:21b-31) -- Mutiny or bounty? (20:32-44) -- The sword in the south (20:45-21:7) -- The sharpened sword (21:8-17) -- The sword of the King of Babylon (21:18-27) -- The sword against the Ammonites (21:28-32) -- A catalogue of crime (22:1-16) -- Scrap city (22:17-22) -- Princes, priests, prophets and people condemned (22:23-31) -- A tale of two cities (23:1-21) -- The lot of the lewd (23:22-35) -- The two sisters: A recapitulation (23:36-49) -- The allegory of the rusty pot (24:1-14) -- The death of Ezekiel's wife (24:15-27) -- Oracles against the nations (25:1-7) -- Oracles against Moab, Edom, and Philistia (25:8-17) -- A tirade against Tyre (26:1-14) -- Lament for a lost city (26:15-21) -- The good ship "Tyre" (27:1-25a) -- The wreck of the "Tyre" (27:25b-36)

The pride of the prince of Tyre (28:1-10) -- Exit from Eden (28:11-19) -- Sorrow for Sidon and hope for Israel (28:20-26) -- Oracles against Egypt (29:1-16) -- The second oracle against Egypt (29:17-21) -- The third oracle against Egypt (30:1-19) -- The fourth oracle: The fracture of Pharaohs' arms (30:20-26) -- The fifth oracle: The cosmic tree (31:1-18) -- The sixth oracle: Mourning the monster (32:1-16) -- The final oracle against Egypt: The denizens of the Netherworld (32:17-32) -- The parable of the watchman I (33:1-20) -- The parable of the watchman II (33:1-20) cont. -- The Fall of Jerusalem (33:21-33) -- The delinquent shepherds (34:1-16) -- The flock and its future (34:17-31) -- The desolation of Mount Seir (35:1-15) -- Hope for the mountains of Israel (36:1-15) -- A new heart and a new spirit (36:16-38)

The valley of the dry bones (37:1-14) -- A story of two sticks (37:15-28) -- Prophecies concerning Gog (38:1-9) -- The attack of Gog (38:10-23) -- The conquest of Gog and beyond (39:1-29) -- A new vision (40:1-4) -- The outer court (40:5-27) -- The inner court (40:28-49) -- The new temple (41:1-26) -- Rooms for the priests (42:1-20) -- God's return to the temple (43:1-12) -- The altar and its consecration (43:13-27) -- Admission to the sanctuary (44:1-14) -- The responsibilities of the Zadokite priests (44:15-31) -- The allocation of the land (45:1-8) -- The duties of the prince (45:9-17) -- The purification and worship of the temple (45:18-25)

Regulations concerning worship (46:1-15) -- The prince's property (46:16-18) -- Temple kitchens (46:19-24) -- The great river from the temple (47:1-12) -- The boundaries of the restored land (47:13-23) -- The division of the land (48:1-29) -- The city of God (48:30-35)

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